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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 15, 1922 
Is Your House Half 
Hot and Half Cold? 
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J OHN GREEN of 429 Wilkins Street, Detroit, heated 
his house with two stoves. “For twenty-seven 
years,” he writes, “we have had one room hot and the 
others cold.” 
Last year he installed ARCOLA, setting it in the 
kitchen and connecting it with an American Radiator 
in each room. 
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Questions About Insects 
Answered by Prof. Glenn W. Herrick 
Corn Ear-worm 
1 found last year a new worm working 
in our corn, mostly on the silage. I am 
sending you a few by mail. Can you tell 
me what they are, how they originate, 
and will they be liable to stay with us 
from year to year? They go in on the 
ear at the small end, and work on the 
corn under the busk. j. t.j. 
The “worms” on the silage were un¬ 
doubtedly the corn ear-worm, which has 
been so abundant during the past season 
and about which we wrote in Title K. 
N'.-Y. in the number for November 5, 
on page T2!)o. The illustration in 
that article showing an ear of corn eaten 
by this caterpillar gives a very good idea 
of its work. The corn ear-worm was 
very abundant throughout New York 
State, and was very likely present in a 
large part of I'cuusylvnuia. It is an old 
pest, and is always present in the South¬ 
ern States on corn nnd on cotton, and in 
some seasons when the weather condi¬ 
tions are right it comes up into the 
Xoi-ibern States and appears in consider* 
work more and more. May it increase 
as fast as the potato bugs, and may its 
good work go on until no potato bugs 
are left. We shall not mourn. 
Getting Rid of Spiders 
IIow could 1 get rid of cobwebs in a 
cow barn? They have developed to a very 
bad stage. They can be brushed down 
one day, but are just as bad the next. 
Pennsylvania. w. E. Y. 
Spiders cannot be looked upon wholly 
as a nuisance, although their webs in 
houses and barns may become an exasper¬ 
ating annoyance. Fortunately, spiders 
live almost entirely upon insects, such ns 
Hies, mosquitoes, gnats, and even butter¬ 
flies and moths, and to the extent to 
which, spiders devour flies, mosquitoes, and 
other insects, they arc of benefit to hu¬ 
manity. Therefore, from our own selfish 
point of view spiders have a place in the 
world, and, what is more, they seem 
amply capable of maintaining that place. 
Domestic spiders—most spiders live in 
the fields and woods—are entitled to our 
What are they looking at? Is it a bird—or a flying machine? Cats are inquis¬ 
itive, and we often wonder what they are thinking about. There is a war on over 
the cat. All over the East are groups of determined men and women who are out 
to compel cat owners to license their j'iets. The object of this is to get rid of wild 
and lawless cals, and give better protection to the good ones. Cat owners are in 
the majority, and They fight every move of the license advocates. 
able numbers toward 4 he middle and end 
of the Summer. It is quite likely that 
it will hardly be seen next year. It sel¬ 
dom appears in any numbers over the 
colder portions of Now York and Penn¬ 
sylvania two successive years. < In Long 
Island and in New Jersey along the coast 
it is more apt to be present every year. 
I do not believe there is much need for 
worry concerning this corn car-worm. 
An Enemy of Potato Bugs 
East Summer, looking over nay pota¬ 
toes. I found two hugs wirh black and 
white markings on one ami on the other 
black and white and pink markings, flat, 
reminding one of a turtle in shape. Each 
one 1ms a sucker like the honey bee, and 
ihis was stuck into a potato bug, and the 
life was about all sucked out. 1 never 
saw anything like it before. This bug 
has n hard shell. a. j. c. 
There are so many different kinds of 
insects in the world, and the great 
majority of them increase so fast, that 
there would be no room left for us, and 
nothing left for ns to eat, if there were 
not certain forces and enemies working 
all of the time to hold them in check. 
Cold weather, very hot weather, ice 
s;ortna, heavy rains, dry weather, and 
birds work on different insects to destroy 
them and hold them in check, In addi¬ 
tion, there arc many small insects known 
ns parasites that live on other and larger 
insects, destroying the latter in great 
numbers and helping to hold them in 
check. Again, there arc many insects 
that simply devour others of their kind, 
much os a cat cals a mouse. These are 
called predaceous insects, and it is one 
of these I hat the correspondent found 
sucking the life blood out of tho potato 
bugs. If it were hot for these natural 
forces of wind and weather and para¬ 
sitic and predaceous insects working all 
of lIn* time against this great horde of 
insect pests Unit attack our crops, we 
would be literally starved out and 
crowded ofT the earth. 
The insect tin* correspondent saw at¬ 
tacking the potato beetles was undoubt¬ 
edly one of the slink-hugs, known scien¬ 
tifically as Perillus bioculntiis. It lias no 
common name, but might very well he 
called the “two-eyed stink-hug,” because 
it has two black spots oil the thorax just 
back of the head. The first time thi 
writer ever saw this insect or heard of 
its work was in 1911. when a correspond¬ 
ent living at Rniisoiavllle, N. Y„ sent 
some of them with the report that they 
were destroying potato hugs on his 
plants. This was good news, and several 
times since we have run across them. 
Evidently this enemy of the potato 
beetle is increasing, for we hear of its 
consideration from another point of view. 
The numbers of them in a house ov barn 
will depend pretty largely upon the 
amount of food present and available. In 
other words, if manure and dirt are al¬ 
lowed to accumulate and remain in and 
about stables, thus affording line oppor¬ 
tunities for flies to breed in great num¬ 
bers, then spiders will multiply and in¬ 
crease in numbers, because they will find 
an abundance of food nt hand Hence, 
these persistent web-spinners should not 
be blamed too hardly, because, to a cer¬ 
tain extent, we may actually encourage 
them to live nnd multiply by reason of our 
own neglectful practices. 
With this knowledge of the food habits 
of spiders we may conclude flint a ieduc- 
tion of the number of flies about barns 
and stable will bring about more or less 
of a reduction in the number of spiders. 
Indirectly, then, spiders in barns may be 
checked in number by keeping the stables 
and outlying yards clean from accumula¬ 
tions of manure, rotting straw, and all 
other matter that may serve as breeding 
places for flies. 
Finally, the writer would suggest a 
thorough spraying of the walls, ceilings 
and other places where the spiders build 
their webs with ordinary kerosene oil or 
with gasoline, if one is very careful with 
fire. Either one of these liquids will 
probably kill all of the spiders it hits. 
Kerosene may remain effective longer than 
gasoline, because it is more oily and does 
not dry as quickly. Moreover, if one 
uses gasoline, very great care should be 
taken regarding lire at the time of spray¬ 
ing. No lighted lanterns, matches, pipes, 
cigars, or fire of any kind should be any¬ 
where about the barn at the time the 
gasoline is being applied, and for some 
time thereafter. One cannot be too care¬ 
ful regarding this matter of tire. 
GLENN XV. HERRICK. 
Taxation of Tractor 
I own a tractor which I use on my 
own farm for farm purposes. Can the 
town assessors assess this tractor and 
make rue pay taxes on it? If I should 
exchange work with a neighbor, say filling 
silo or sawing his wood, would I be sub¬ 
ject to any such tax? II. P. 
New York. 
The tax law provides that all real prop¬ 
erty within this Slate and all personal 
property situated or owned within this 
State is taxable unless exempted from 
taxation by law. Among the exemptions 
will he found such property as is exempt 
by law from execution (other than home¬ 
steads). household furniture and personal 
effects of the value of $1,000. It would 
make no difference whether you used the 
tractor for work outside of your own work 
or not. N. T. 
